Letters to the editor for Monday, July 1, 2013

Monday

Jul 1, 2013 at 2:00 AM

Outraged ... by the actions of the IRS? They seemed to have been doing their jobs; true, maybe they took longer than usual however, and maybe they were busy servicing the American citizens who choose to pay their fair share.

Outraged ... by the actions of the IRS? They seemed to have been doing their jobs; true, maybe they took longer than usual however, and maybe they were busy servicing the American citizens who choose to pay their fair share.

Fact is, the IRS's harshly scrutinizing applicants of 501c-4s is part of their job. Thank goodness for them ... it would be a good thing if everyone in government did their respective jobs as well. Frankly, we might want to ask ourselves: "Who are these people?" Not simply asking for special privileges, they demand it now.

They are consuming the people's most valued resources for their own "political will" ... (for example) "time." Who pays for that? Not the 501c's — they effectively brought the U.S.-IRS productivity to zero for a personal cause — at the start of a collections cycle?

These folks do not seem to sincerely care about others. So if the leadership of our magnificent country sincerely believes this to be the highest priority (IRS rule enforcement) for the majority, at this time in our economic history, clearly, folks, you have too much free time; these folks up there really need to focus on what the people — the American majority people — need and want: full employment.

News flash: Michael Bloomberg is on to something; if the current party bosses continue to ignore the voice of the masses, and signs of myopia, the 2016 administration may be of an independent party.

Hans C. Sandiford

Newburgh

Apparently, Obama's utopian world does not account for dealing with the "bully effect" from foreign dictators.

Why does Obama intercede in the name of liberty in Libya, but not Syria? Simple: One has oil and the other doesn't.

Assad now steps boldly across Obama's line in the sand — the "game changer" — calling our president's bluff by using those chemical weapons Obama warned him against using. To what end? Providing small arms? Really? Were it not for the many lives forsaken in the wake of Obama's promises, this might actually be funny.

But as bullies go, and mind you, the prerequisite for any dictatorship is the satisfaction of oppression, Russia and China now snub their collective noses at our request for Snowden, who now supposedly tours the globe with four laptops potentially full of classified information critical to our national defense.

Last year, the U.S. extradited some 1,500 Russians back to their homeland without incident.

Or how about China's repeated breaching of those firewalls protecting our highly classified defense documents?

In the real world, Obama's elitist, stoic contrition has only invited oppression from notorious oppressors.

All the while, Obama unaccountably impugns Americans by adding further provisions within the very Patriot Act he once condemned.